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8 hours ago · Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II. The planned operation was canceled when Japan surrendered following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet declaration of war, and the invasion of Manchuria. [1] The operation had two parts: Operation ...
1 day ago · Thus, Little Boy, the name of the first atomic bomb, was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Fat Boy was dropped three days later, on August 9, on Nagasaki. Almost 200,000 Japanese people ...
8 hours ago · During the Second World War, when the Americans dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the purpose was to force the surrender of Japan and to intimidate Soviet Union and in the words of Secretary James Byrne make them more manageable. This dominant position is that the US had led to the practice of nuclear threat diplomacy.
8 hours ago · Welcome to War History Online’s World War II category, where we delve into the monumental conflict that shaped the course of the 20th century.Here, we explore the causes, major battles, and enduring legacy of the Second World War, shedding light on the global scale of destruction, the heroic acts of individuals, and the profound social and political changes it brought about.
1 day ago · The following is a list of Japanese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from operations conducted from start of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the end of World War II in 1945.
On July 15th, 1945, suspecting Kinu had some intel because she was a flagship, the USN sent the submarine rescue ship USS Chanticleer (ASR-7) to investigate. Her divers found her and recovered classified documents and four coding machines. Unsavory, even if they did gain intelligence. Kinu was lying flat on the bottom of the seabed on the port ...
8 hours ago · In the middle of the multiple-reality chaos is a container called the Cold Atomic Laboratory (CAL). “We did that in-house. It’s a lot about feel because you don’t want it to feel too magical; you want to base it on the idea of being an electrical appliance. It has to react in a way that creates double realities.
